This Fire Burns · Killswitch Engage

101 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-34, 52-62 and 82-88, and 1 more place -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THIS FIRE BURNS · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 13, 35, 38, 39, 42 and 14 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 20 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-63.

PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKEHS11V+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Fire Burns?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is This Fire Burns hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in This Fire Burns?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 13, 35, 38, 39, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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